Actors Quotes

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.

I was born a character actor.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I like actors - I used to be one.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.